Non-skid device for motor-cycles.



J. HAUERWAS, J11. NON-SKID DEVICE FOR MOTOR CYCLES. APPLIOATION nLnn 3.21, 1911;.

Patented Oct. 6, 1914.

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NON-SKID DEVICE FOR MOTOR-CYCLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 6, 1914.

' Application filed March 21, 1913: Serial No. 755,837.

To all whom it may concern:

.Be it known that I, Joniv HAUERWAS, Jr., of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, have invented a Non-Skid Device for Motor-Cycles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to vehicles, more particularly of the automobile class, provided with rubber tires, and the object'thereof is to provide an easily attached and detachable form of antiskid chain.

My invention is especially intended for motor bicycles-but canalso be used for other kinds of vehicles.

Briefly described, it comprises a-detachable clip ada ted to be secured upon the metal rim or elly of the wheel and a chain adapted to pass around the tire and having its ends secured to the clip; and I further provide means whereby the clips may be readily removed from the folly whenever desired.

My invention will best be understood from aconsideration of the following detailed description, which relates to the accompanying drawing, whereinl lgure 1 is a side elevation of the lower part of a wheel having my nonskid device attached thereto; Fig. 2 is a transverse section through the lower portion of the wheel showing my device in side elevation thereon; Fig. 3 is a plan-view of the device and a portion of the wheel-rim and tire as seen in Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is a perspective of the device employed for removing the nonskid device from the wheel-rim.

The reference letters refer each to the same part in each figure of the drawings.

In the drawings, A represents the telly, B in the spokes, and G the inflatable outer tire of a vehicle-wheel, the latter inclosing the usual inner tube D as seen in Fig. 2.

My device comprises the clip E, which is constructed of two hook-shaped members e adapted to clip the opposite sides of the folly as shown, and united by rivets e to a spr1ng-plate e", which holds'themembers e in firm clipping-relation to the wheel. Each of the members e carries an upright perforated standard and one of the two standards carries the piv0t-pin of a bar F, which turns thereon. The bar F has its free end jerked and turned into an eye at f adapted to register with the transverse hole through the other shindard 6, so that in the fulldine position of Fig. 2 a split-pin G may be inserted through the two holes to hold the bar F in said position.

The device is completed by a. chain H, the end links lb of which are provided each with a loop 11 which fits over one of the opposite standards 2, so that the chain hangs in the position shown, and, when the wheel is in motion, acts to prevent it from skidding laterally on the well-known principle of such chains.

It will be observed that the bar F performs the oflice not merely of holdin the ends of the chain in place but also of holding the members 'e against spreadin 4 so that the clip cannot become detached mm the wheel-rim. When it is desired to detach the device, the split-pin G is first removed, then the bar F is thrown up into the dotted-line position of Fig. 2, and then an instrument I, shown in Fig. 4, is applied to one side of the clip in the manner illustrated in dotted lines in Fig. 2, said instrument having two forked fingers 2" adapted to rest upon the inner side of the folly A on opposite sides of the clip and a downwardly bent hooked finger 2', the pointed end of which is adapted to engage under the hooked end of one of the members 0' so that it forces this member up into the position shown in dotted lines in Fi 2, when it easilyvsprings 01f. The device 1s inserted in place by simply pressing it over the folly, with which it readily engages when the bar is open.

Various changes and modifications in the constructions as herein shown may be made without departing from the spirit of my inventiomand I wish it understood therefore that the latter is not otherwise limited than by the proper scope of my claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. The combination of a clip adapted to be detachably engaged with a wheel-rim and having a pair-pf inwardly extending projections, a chain adapted to pass around the wheel-tire, and having loops on its end-links adapted to engagesaid projections, and a strut-device connecting the ends of said projections.

2. The combination or a clip adapted to be detachably engaged with a wheel-rim and having a pair of projections on opposite sides of the rim, a chain adapted to g V nuance pass around the Wheel-tire, and having right standard extending above said spring, loops on itsend-links adapted to engage said a bar adapted to detachably connect the projections, and a strut-bar detachably conupper ends of said standards,a chain adaptnecting the ends of said projections and ed to pass around the wheel-tire, and means 5 adapted to hold themat a, fixed distance. on the opposite ends of said chain for en- 3. ihe combination of a clip adapted to gaging said standards. be detachably engaged with a wheel-rim 7. A device of the class described comand having a pair of projections on oppoprising a pair of hooked members adapted site sides of the rim, a chain adapted to to engage opposite sides of a wheel-felly, a 19 pass around the Wheel-tire, and having plate-spring connecting them and adapted loops on its end-links adapted to engage to press them into yielding engagement with said projections, a strut-bar pivoted to one said telly, said members having each an upof said projections and having a free end right standard extending above said spring, adapted to lie adjacent to the other projeca bar adapted to detach'ably connect the 15 tion, and means for interengaging said free upper ends of said standards, and a chain end and said other projection. adapted to pass around the wheel-tire, the 1 4:. A device of the class described comend-links of said chain being adapted to be prising a pair of hooked members adapted looped around said standards. to engage on the opposite sides of a wheel- I 8. he combination of a clip having a re- 55 2Q folly, a spring connecting them, and a bar sllienl body and recurved ends adapted to adapted to engage said members to hold engage around a Wheel rim from the inner them in a fixed position relative to each other. side of the rim whereby it is adapted; to slide 5. A device of the class described comon the same, positive means for forcing said prising a pair of hooked members adapted re-curved ends toward each other and into w 25 to engage the opposite sides of a wheelgrippina; engagement with the rim of a telly, a plate-spring connecting them, a wheel, thus giving it a certain frictional hold chain adapted to pass around the wheelupon the rim whereby the sliding movefelly, and means on the respective members ment is retarded,- and a flexible connection for engaging the respective ends of said passing around the tire-side of the rim and gm chain. secured at opposite ends to said clip.

6. A device of the class described comin Witness whereof iihave hereunto set my prising a pair of hooked members adapted hand in the presence of two Witnesses, to engage opposite sides of a Wheel-telly, a JQHN HAUER'WAS, JR. plate-spring connecting them and adapted dditnessesz to press them into yielding}; engagement with Joni: riannnwas, Sr,

said telly, said members having each np- Frame A, Grmnaar, 

